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BANDON RECORDER -RÄD A FixemRCOWF Aa Lafartaaat* 4a»»«lea aad a F*v- taatlr Freak ■*•>!». A lawyer who formerly practiced bis profesalou In Georgia telle In th* New York Telegram this amusing ease which he once tried in that state. He waa tbeu a student In tbe office of bis uncle, Cokmel Culver, who figured In local politics. A "trifling” negro, Ben Button, had been arrested at tbe in stance of bls wife, who was tired of supporting him and insisted that the court make him work: I defended Ben at the Instance of my uncle, who was, I am sorry to say. Inclined to curry favor with tbe col ored voter. Ben was on tbe stand, and I waa examining him. “Now, Ben,” I said, “Amanda de clares tn her complaint that you don’t give ber any money, and’’— Dat ole woman’s al’ays complain- " Interrupted my client. Yes, I know, but what I want to ask you 1a: Are you able to support her? Have you any Income—that Is. any fixed income?" Bed looked puzzled, I tried to ex plain and told him that a fixed income was an Income on which a person could rely absolutely, not one contin gent on odd Jobs—In other words, a certainty. My uncle was sitting at my elbow coaching me. and I thought I 'Now, tell the was doing right well, court,” I concluded, "have you a fixed income?” "Yesaar,” answered tbe black scamp, The answer almost took my breath away, for 1 bad not counted on It. “What!” I thundered. “You mean to say that you, Ben Sutton, have a steady, reliable and fixed income on which you can absolutely depend?” "Yesaar.” “Wbat Is It?” I gasped In despera tlon. "Well, sar, you see.” returned Ben, "Colonel Culver, thar, al'ays guvs me fo‘ bits an’ a sack uv flour on ever* 'lection day.” GEMS OF THOUGHT Pardon others often; thyself never.— Publius Syr us. We like to divine others, but do not like to be dlvlued ourselves.—Roche foucauld. Tbe Good Spirit never antedates. He never gives ua today what we shall need tomorrow.—Emerson. Do not make excuses to yourself for your failures, but look them squarely in the face and study how to avoid their repetition. Life Is a burden Imposed upon you by God. Wbat you make of IL that It will be to you. Take it up bravely, bear It joyfully, lay it down trium phantly.—Gall Hamilton. We dig arid toll, we worry and fret, aud all the while close over us bends the Infinite wonder and beauty of na ture, saying: “Look up, my child! Feel my smile and be glad!"—G. 8. Merriam. God has put It Into man's power not to fall into real evils, and the fact that we cannot avoid death show* that It la not a real evil, else God would have put it in our power to avoid It.—Mar cus Aurelius. A man who Ilves entirely to himself become* at last obnoxious to himself. I believe It is the law of God that self centeredneaa ends in self nauseouHness. There 1* no weariness like tbe wear! nes* of a man who is wearied of him self, and that is the awful Nemesis which follows the selfish life.—J. H. Jowett. Th* Oa* Ah»«. “Polly, I have been wouderiug what we are going to do with our boys,” »aid a gentleman the other day. “You see, the way things stand now tbe uniou* ouly allow employer* to take Just so mauy apprentice«*, aud uo matter bow muck they need other boy* iu their work, they are uot able to take them. There are *corea of boy* iu Hau Frau- cisoo to-day wautmg to learn a trade but there is uo opportunity offered them. My son ha* gone from oue place to auother and failed. Then J went with bim, aud eveu offered to pay oue firm to take my sou iuto their place of business anal let him begin at the foot of the ladder aud work bls way up, but the proprietor ouly shook bis bead dis mally. He would like to have taken bim but there waa uo vacancy. Lisfeu at that, Polly, uo vacancy; yet there I* a vacancy for every foreigner, uo mat ter how ignorant be Is. They are fill ing every available place, but there is no room for our own American boys, t*>ru aud reared and educated here. The majority of the foreigners who are tilling the places of our owu Amerieau txiys do not even know what the Con stitution of the United Htates contains. What do they care? They have never been allowed any privileges iu their own couutry, from which mauy of them have fled, but here they propone to rule. Now, answer me, if you can, w.iat do tbe people of California pro pose to do with our boy»? Make vaga bonds or vagrants out of them? Drive them out of the State to learn a trade? Bring them up in idleness because there is no place for them in our owu Golden Htate, so rich iu prospects for tile for eigners that they pour into our wide o|>en doors and usurp the places of our native sons? Mind you, I am not cast ing reflections on the foreigners as a whole, for there are many such that are an addition to any community and loy al, welcome citizens aud not a blight. This question of wbat to do with our itoys who want to iearu a trade is get ting to be a serious problem, aud I waut to know what the fathers in this Htate intend to do about It? “Another tliiug, Polly, that strikes me as being very strange are the condi tions now existing in New York. It looks to me as if the lalior parties, par ticularly among the builders, were do ing everything toward cutting their own throats financially. Here it is bor dering on what is predicted is going to lie a severe winter, and we all know that New York is not a laud of sun shine and flowers in the winter time, but on the contrary, tbe greatest suffer ing and distress prevail, many deaths occurring annually from starvation and freezing. Yet by their concerted action laboring men have tied up over seventy millions of dollars that should have lieen put into circulatkin by tbe capi talists and business men of moderate means. They have just simply para lyzed business in building circles. All contracts have been withdrawn, and for all the moneyed men care these men can walk the streets and freeze while their families cry in vain for food and fuel. ’Tis a queer state of attain*, Polly, to a man who has been brought up in the ‘old school' as I have. It is not the moneyed men who are going to suffer when the thermometer drops lie low zero, but these men who seem to be blind to their own interests. I hope I haven’t tired you, but I thought possi bly I might feel better if I could talk the matter over of ‘What are we going to do with our boys?’ I read what you had to say about maklug home pleas- aut for the boys and I heartily concur in that, so concluded you might be in terested In what was to become of them after they bad finished school and wanted to take up something that would insure them being honorable and upright industrious citizens. My wife says'Wait patiently, for there’s bound to tie a turn In the tide,’ but it is hard to lie patient when you see your boy be coming more discouraged and impa tient over the delay from day to day.’’ I especially remember Emile de Gl- rardln, editor, spouter, intriguer—the “Grand Emile,” who boasted that he Invented and presented to tbe French people a new idea every day. This futile activity of his always seemed to me best expressed in the American simile, “Busy aa a bee in a tar barrel.” There was, indeed, one thing to bls credit: He had somehow inspired his former wife, tbe gifted Delphine Gay. with a belief tn his greatness, and a pretty atory was current illustrating thia. During tbe revolution of 1848 various tuen of note, calling on Mme. Glrardln, expressed alarm at the prog ress of that most foolish of overturns, when sbe said, with an air of great solemnity and poiutlng upward, "Gen tlemen, there is one above who watches over France.” (“11 y a un la-baut qul vellle aur la France.”) All were great ly impreesed by this evidence of sub lime faith until they discovered by the context that it was not the Almighty in whom sbe put ber trust, but the great Emile, whose study was just Is the old-time amusement for doll above her parlor.—Andrew D. White In playing going outof fashion, I wonder? Century. The largest manufactory of dolls in Germany and from where all the most Liven at Aalaaal». Animal* vary greatly In tbe length beautiful creations in the doll line come of their live*. Elephant*, eagle* and from, complains that there has been parrot* may celebrate their hundredth such an alarming falling oil' in orders, birthday, but our domesticated beasts particularly for high-priced dolls, that are thought to bo aged when they they are contemplating going out of have reached a quarter of a hundred busineM In a way. Thia might alarm A horse I* old at twenty, a donkey at the mother Liearte of all the little girls twenty-five and a cat or dog at fifteen on this side of the Atlantic who every Tbe span of existence allotted to In- sects 1* shorter still the fly and the year pen their letter to good Krie K tin butterfly commonly enjoying bnt one gle modestly requesting from oue to summer of vigorous life and then be half a dozen dolls for them to adopt Ing taken off by the coM If they are and bring up in the way they should not previously snapped up by a bird. go. “Ho far America is tbe only coun try W hich has uot fallen oil' in ite or It Wa» B*«h. der* to an alarming degree,” says tbe "Wbat do you think of old Uncle Peter devising all hla money for tbe report from t h I* celebrated German doll •rectlon of a mausoleum over Ills re factory, *o we need not worry about our little American girls losing their fond mains?” said tbe first needy relative. "Awfnlt" replied tbe second. “It's ness for the pastime that has retain«d just ■ willful waste." Ite Interest for eeulu.ie* for the wee "Huh! 1 call It a wasteful wlll.”- folk. 1 do not see what could take It* Pbllsdelpbta Press. place, for it is a rare thing to find a child who does not prefer a doll to any Fl»k*d Far a Ca»»»ll«a*at Uot It Alice (looking at her portrait) -Don't other playtbingor game of amusement. you think that Mr. Van Brush hat The dollies come first, last and all the managed to make rather n pretty pic time, and Polly hopes it is one of the ture of me? fails that has come to stay. Edith— Tea. be really has. What remarkably clever artist be la! Hpeakingof doll-playing, did you ever notice how a little girl will Imitate her Th* Canuta*!'» (art*«». Klllsem (a native of the Cannibal Is- mother in the care of herself when sbe Isndst—They ar* haring a barbecue Is cuddling and loving her doll. One minute she will smother it with carves down on the beach. Eateem—What’s tbe entree, min or es arid tbe next moment scold and woman? shake It until Ito glass eyes rattle She Klllsem—Neither. They’ve captured will put it In a comer with its face a ship laden with newspapers, and they turned to the wall for a minute at a are devouring the new*. — Princeton time and then bring tbe little culprit . c out. Various punishments she willlry aud you cau rest assured that it is th* same ehasttsemeut she tin» aseu iu her owu home. Occassloually you Aud a child who la always gentle and loving with ber doll. She talks and reaaous with it, never punish»*, for in ber home whipping for au offense is nsver known, her parents do not bellve iu It wheu reasoning with the child will do Just as well aud which will not humili ate her before tbe eyes of other* aud cru*b the iplrit and wound tbe »enai- live uature of the little child. The beet family of children, six iu number, that 1 have ever seen, bad never known wbat it was to be punished. The pa rents reasoned with them and talked the matter over, much as they would have done with older aud wiser mem bers of tbe family who were guilty of some offense. It appealed to all that was noble and manly and womanly in tbe little children; they were ashamed and ready to atone for wbat was pos sibly ouly the result of a childish act. Whipping would have only crushed the proud little spirit of tbe child. Many times has Polly beard a child after being severely punished say with streaming eyes and voice trembliug with rage and indiguation, “I bate iny mother,’’or, “I despise my father,” and tor tbe time being they meant every word they said. I saw a little hoy rightafters severe punishment for some very trivial offense, and after studying, as he said, “how to get even,” walked up aud emptied a box of earth on his mother’s front door-step. She was scrupulously neat and he kuew nothing would horrify her much more tbau to find her front door-step in such au un tidy condition. Hegot the extra whip ping he expected, but he smiled while it was lieitig administered. Home was not very pleasant for that boy and he Anally ran away from home and shipped on an outgoing vessel. Nothing was beard of him for six years aud then be wrote home, stating he was homeward bound. He visited his pareute for a few days but uothing would induce him to remain at home. He was one of the boys that could have been reasoned with instead of being chastised with the rod. A child, bey or girl, usually uses the language they hear at home, aud if they threaten to “break the doll’s neck” or to “beat their dog within an inch of his life,” in their quiet every-day play, nine times out of ten they are familiar expressions In the home circle. BRIEF REVIEW. No Russians Wanted. The Finns, even in their great dis- tress, have not forgotten their national sense of humor. Uualile to make any effective political resistance to the faith less encroachment on their liberties made by the Government of tbe Czar, they adopted a policy of retaliation that must have been singularly irritatiug to their victims. In the last year or so even a Russian subject, let alone a Rus sian officer, had the greatest difficulty in getting a drink at a Furnish restau rant or accommodation at a Finnish hotel. It was a case of “uo Russians served here,” and the policy uaturally caused great inconvenience at a time when Finland was being flooded with Russians. At last, however, the au thorities have taken cognizance of this system of attack, and now, under pain of a heavy fine, the Finnish hotel keeper has to admit any who come to him for accommodation. It will be in teresting to watch whether Finnish in genuity can devise any other method of otmtructiug the Russification of their lieloved countjy. DIFFERENCES BETWEEN UPLAND AND HOT LAND MEXICANS. Why th* Character!»!** aS lb* Pea pl* la th* Tw* *»ctlaa* el Mexico Ar* Sa lallkv—XSerla ei Twa <’•»- tar lea af Serf dam. There 1* no country In the world that presents more strange contrasts of land and |>eople, habit* and customs, beat and cold, than Mexico. Tbe table lands of tbe country are a mile aud a half higher tbau the coast lauds, and between these there are to be found all gradations of climate. This fact lends much of tbe picturesque and strange to Mexico and gives it a va riety In all things possessed by few, If •ny, countries In tbe world. Of all tbe inhabitants of Mexico, the life of the people of the hot country is tbe most interesting. This is, strange to suy, due to tbe fact that there tbe people have ever possessed more of freedom than in the colder localities. For two centuries or more the great mass of people of the uplands were slaves. They toiled in the mines, with a guard of soldiers set over them; they built tbe public roads; they worked the ranches, farms and haciendas for master* who gave them scarcely more than the food they ate. Tbe great farms of the uplands have ever required sure"help, and so each ranchman had his serfs. Many estates possessed hundreds of them. Thus all individuality was crushed out of the lower class, aud the terrible effect of this condition of things is still evident The peoplb of the hot lands fared bet ter, because there It was much easier to make a living and much harder to hold very large haciendas For this reason tbe characteristics of the people are quite distinct from those of their brethren of the upland plateaus. In tbe hot lands mauy Indians still claim to bold in right of inheritance from remote ancestors portions of land each in Ills own Individual right. There, too. the mayor of the village or town bolds office so long aa he pleases the mass of the people. In the uplands It has been tbe custom of the rich aud powerful to distribute offices of all kinds as part of their prerogative of birth and wealth. The lower classes of the uplands, although they now have the advantage of a fairly good public system of education and are be coming gradually educated, are in tbe main a distinctively unambitious peo ple. They were so long in semislavery that they feel that tbe world of the middle and upper class people is be yond them. They have, therefore, uo Interest in anything outside their cir cle of friends and acquaintances—that is, in a political way. But not so in many hot country villages and com munities. There the Indian has ever been more or less a factor in the life of the community in which be resided. On the upland* there are long stretches of more or less bare lauds, with mouutalns rising up boldly in the background. In many parts during the dry season the laud is almost bar ren of vegetation. But in tbe Lot coun try grow tall and shady trees and thick undergrowth. Everything grow* almost without attention from the band of man, and yet, strange to say, the peon, or laborlug man. Is there more ambitious and a better worker than the peon of tbe colder uplunds. This 1* not natural and is ouly ex plained by the different conditions in which they have passed tbe last 400 years. Serfdom ou tbe uplands extin guished all ambition in tbe lower class. The lower class of tlio hot country people are fond at social life, and al most anj uigbt or early evening tbe year throughout one may find groups of’people in a little Indian village gathered together and entertaining one another in front of some one of tbe houses or on tbe public square, which every Mexican town, however small, possesses, with muilc, songs and occa sionally dancing.—Modern Mexico. Attacked by Bata. William Newlin, after a desperate battle with bate tbe other night, was compelled to go to the Germantown Hospital, Philadelphia, to have his wounds dressed. Suburban residents have been greatly annoyed by a regular plague of these winged vermin lately, and they are particularly plent if u Mn the ueigbl orhcod of Willow Grove avenue aud the Reading Railroad. Newlin was passing this point when he was assailed by a legion of these pesta, and after fighting them fora while was compelled to flee. They dashed at him viciously, biting him about the face, head aud hands antll the blood flowed from the numerous wounds. Arriving at tbe bespital, tbe doctors promptly cared for bis hurts while be told them of his unusual experience. Weeds Impede a Train. Kansas is having trouble with weeds Just now. The Pauses branch railroad baa almost gone out of btHiness because of them. The weeds grow on the road bed in luxurious style, and as section bauds could not be hired, the weed* grew over the rails, The wheels of the engiue crushed these weeds aud made the rails so slippery that It took the train two hoars to go seven miles. Washington’s Watch. Leland M. Finks of Calhoun, Mo., claims to have a watch which waa once the property of George Washington. It Is a silver affair, and 1s said to have been used by Washington to time his fast horses. Mr. Fink* also has tbe ooat-of-arms of the Washington family. He claims that these two thing* have been In hfo family for many years. fHE CODE IN ANCIENT TIMES NEV/ SHORT STORIES STRANGE CONTRAST A Limits* Edition. There is a paper published in London called the Anti-Top Hat. It dcpenda for Its circulation not upon subscrib ers, but upon the trill of an eccentric old man who hated the conventional form of headgear with a hatred which he carried beyond tke grave. He fought the “stovepipe” hit while alive, and when he died he left bis nephew $2,000 a year on condition that be edit and publish s monthly paper devoted to ridiculing the “top bat.” The nephew accepted the legacy and the responsi bility and Issues his paper regularly, though be confines each edition to three coplee, one for hinaelf and one for each of tbe old man's executors. Th* Arabi* L*as»a(*. There i* no language more poetical than the Arabic language, where snow 1* called "hair of tlie mountain” and the rainbow is ‘bride of the rain.” Red mullet is “the sultan of fishes.” maidenhair fern is translated by "little cane of the well.'* Ordinary Arabic words show an extraordinary gift of description. The word for secretly means literally “under the inattiug” and never is expressed thus: "When th* vharcoa! take* .tx»i «tul tbv salt buds.” Uncontrolled ascendency of im agination marks tbe Arab and endows bis nature with a fascination all its own. An outdoor life is hl* heritage, and tbe uilng« or nature are a part of himself. Spring be calls "grass;” sum mer 1* “gleaning;” autumn 1* “fruit;" winter la “rainy." Ths Mother of Pearl Industry. The center of the mother of pearl In dustry Is Singapore. The shell oyster Is six to ten Inches long, the larger one* weighing as much a* ten pounds. It kt found on hard bottom channels be tween Islands, where the current Is strong. In gathering it a diver takes with him a bag of coir rope a fourth of About 111,000,000 tons of freight are an inch tn diameter, made in large annually carried on the Ohio river, meshes, which, while suited for bold which has a length of 1,000 miles from ing the shell, does not impede bls trav eling along the bottom. Pittahurg to Cairo. WBa« Fred Dnsla» Said. A belief In witchcraft still prevails In One cold night daring tbe height of parts of I^amwabire, Rugland, also in th« civil war Hon. Frederick Douglass the Isle of Man and still more strongly got oat of a train at Jersey City. He in the Hebrides. wore a big shawl on top of his over coat, and a New York reporter, seeing the dark skin and towering form of tbe traveler, stopped him with tbe question, "’ndlan?" “No!” »booted Douglass. “Nigger!” i • ''Ä F**>u*a Deri la th* Mar* of u»od <**••* Aae*. In tbe reigu of good Queen Anno Juris were no lea* frequent than in tbe rowdy, riotous day* of Charles II. laird Mobun, a dissolute, reiuoreele«* nobleiusn, was the terror of honest Ixinduq cit Isens at this time, aud many were the infauious escapade* in which be played chief character. He was guilty of one act which bear* no other name than that of murder—the killing of i>oor Mouutford, the actor, tn cold blood because be eudeavored to protect tbe honor of Mrs. Bracegirdle, the famous and beautiful actress. It waa Lord Mohun who fought and kill ed tbe Duke of Hamilton, an affair which all will remember who have read Thackeray'* great novel, “Es mond." Tbe duel waa fought with sword* in Hyde park, tbe challenge having been sent by Mohun to the duke, who bad. with perfect accuracy, stated that one of Mohun'* creatures “had neither truth nor justice in him.” The Duke of Hamilton received a wound in tl*e right side of the leg about seven Inches long, auother iu the right arm, a third In the upper part of tbe breast, run- uiug downward toward tbe body; a fourth on the outside of the left leg. Ix>rd Mohun himself was mortally wounded, receiving a large wound in tbe groin, another in tbe right side through the body, In which tbe sword plunged riglit up to the hilt, and a third in ills arm. There is uo doubt he rightly deserved his death, because, departing from tbe rules of fence among men of honor, be shortened bis sword, thrust under his opponent’s guard and stabbed the duke in the manner of a common assassin. old Jvha Hrwwa'a Wblxle. Tbe silver boatswalu's whistle with which John Brown piped orders to tils men wtille they were at Harpers Fer ry bast been discovered in Washington by tbeoifllcers of the Kansas Historical society. An effort Is ms king to secure the instrument for the society’s mu seuui. When John Brown gathered bls uieu around Har|>er» Ferry and begau prep ■rations for the seizure of tbe ar aeual he instructed them, according to the story, to hide themselves In the mountain forests and to refrain from being seen together, Then he gave them Instructions to listen each day at sunrise aud sunset for their orders. which would be piped to them with tbe boatswain's whistle. These Instructions were carried out to the letter, and for some days pre ceding the attack on tbe arsenal the people of Har|>ers Ferry beard the mysterious piping from Brown’s head quarters. Tlie notes would be taken up by tbe nearest of his follower* and •ent ou over the mountains until the farthest distant of Ills baud had re ceived the word of the commander. When Brown was captured the whis tle was taken from him by Lieutenant Stewart of the regular army, who aft erward became a lieutenant general in the Confederacy. Stewart Anally gave It to Colonel Washington, who In turn presented It to John Casein, then a weli known lawyer In this city. Tbe whis tle is now in iHissesslou of Mrs. Mary A. Cassln, who lives in Georgetown. It is about nine inches long aud in an ex cellent state If preservation. CHOICE MISCELLANY Tala •»< a Auaavctla* Llak. Tbe Darwinian theory has recently received more taugible support In tbe Gaya district, where au iufaut has been discovered who Is ¡»osseaaed of a tall. The euae Is repurt«d to the ludiau I M.dhal Gazette by Captain Chatter tou, I. M. 8.. and the Infaut 1* appar ently causing a seusution and may In time for aught that can be said be worshiped as the god of ilunuman. tbe monkey god come back to earth. Cap tain Chatterton dencrllx-s thia curious child as follows: “'Die child had what appeared to be a tail. I made tbe following note at the time. Tbe spine is apparently |>er- fectly normal. Over the base of the sacrum Is a bruwuy swelling, from the lower i>ortion of which emerges a per fectly skin cover, tail-like ap|s-u<lage (bout three to three and a half Inches long. This api>endag* Is eupable of a limited amount of uiotiou. It wag* slightly when the infaut takes the breast, There la no evidence of any bone in this tall.’ It feels tough and elastic, It ap|>ears to be connected by soft attachments to the sacrum The tip of the coccyx can be felt In Its nor mal situation under cover of the ‘tail.’ All the other parts of this baby were normal. Tbe parents absolutely re fused to entertain the idea of having the tail removed. Tbe reason is, 1 think, that the fame of the baby has already begun to spread, and I have uo doubt that by Judicious management it will prove a source of Income to Its parents.”—Amrita Basar Patrika. Th* Story of a Com pl lot rat. L. Frank Baum, tbe author of fairy tales, tells a good story at Id* own ex pense. While at a southern winter re HI« Face Waa Familiar. James Neill and bls wife (Edytli sort recently a lady who has a pen Chapman* were in Chicago not so very chant for meeting ail sorts of celebrities PHILIPPINE VOLCANOES. long ago, and while there Mr. Neill secured an Introduction to Mr. Buum Mayo* la the Moat Faaoa», and the thought be recognised a waiter in tbe and asked permission to present her little «laughter, a miss of seven, “who Taal Cornea Next. hotel dining room. Tbe most famous Philippine volcano “Where have you waited on me be- knows every one of your books by and one of the fluent volcano cones in fore, my good maii?” he asked. “In heart.” Tlie youtig lady, lank haired tbe world Is that of May on. Its height San Francisco, Log Angeles. S|iokane anil round eyed, extended her hand In a mechanical fashion, and. staring is 8,970 feet, and the volcano is visible or Denver?" at u great distance. Since 1760 records “I've never been west of Chicago, straight Into tlie author’s face, she re marked. “Mr. Baum. I think you’re a hove been kept of its eruptions. In sir,” was the answer. khat year many plantations and vil “But your fuce is very familiar. I'm very wonderful man.” Somewhat barrassed by this direct praise, lages were burled under a stream of children's author putted her head lava which flowed down its eastern asked, "Why do you say that, slope. About 1,200 Ilves were lost In dear?” "Because mamma told me the eruption of 1814, which burled tbe answered the child complacently. country around a part of the base of In the roar of laughter that followed Mayon under the outpourlugs of lava the stricken mother made good her es and dust. A similar calamity In 1825 cape. destroyed the lives of about 1,500 per sons. In the nineteenth century there Elleu Trrry's Admirer. were a number of severe eruptions. In Miss Ellen Terry tells an amusing cluding one In 1886-87 which continued story of an admirer site had during an about nine months. An eruption In engagement with an old stock eotupa 1897 killed 350 persons and destroyed ny. Each night a bunch of fresh vio much property. Twenty-two violent lets was sent to tier anonymously. eruptions of this volcano are on record. They were so sweet that one nlglit she Next to Mayon tbe Taal volcano is tucked them tn her belt Just before the most remarkable. It is on an is she went on the stage. land in the lake of Rombon. and the is The next night tbe bunch was larger, land. built up by Its outpourings, has and with it there was this badly writ an area of 220 square miles. The vol ten letter: “I've seeu you wear my vio cano Is incessantly ejecting dust and lets, so I know you’ve bud them. vapor from its crater. Taal, as well as Look at uie. I shall be In my shirt Mayon. has been the center of numer sleeves nnd my legs hanging over the ous destructive earthquakes, but no front of the gallery." And, sure very great eruption has occurred since enough, there he was. and Miss Terry 1864, when four villages around tbe smiled a kindly recognition. mountain were completely destroyed.— Bulletin of American Geographical A* Undersrroand City. "I WAS BNOAOKD BT MBS. FIBXB." Society. In Turkestan, on the right bank of sure," said the actor. “You must have the Arnou Darla, are n number of large AN"OBSTINATE MAJOR waited ou me somewhere.” caves which upon examination some “Yes, sir; I did, sir,” admitted tlie time ago were found to lead to an un R* Hag HI* Way Eve* After He Was gentleman of the cloth smilingly. derground city, built some two centu la HI» Com». “Aud where was it?” ries before the birth of Christ and Many amusing stories are told of “In ’Divorçons,’ sir. 1 was engaged composed of an enormous lubyrinth the great formality blended with a hu morous brusqueness and independence by Mrs. Fiske when you were her lead of corridors, streets and squares, sur ing man, sir, to take part In the dinner rounded by houses and other buildings which characterized early Revolution scene, sir. It was a number of years two or three stories high. ary days. An incident of camp life la ago, sir.” It la supposed that long centuries ago related by the author of ’’Romance and It was afterward explained that the this city, so carefully concealed In tbe Realism of the Southern Gulf Coast.” professloual waiter was engaged to bowels of the earth, provided un entire In 1798 the first United State* troops lend realism to tbe scene on the occa population with a refuge from the In that eame down tbe Mississippi were sion mentioned and that on several cursions of nomadic savages and rob ipiartered at Fort Adam*. General occasions since he bas “supported” bers.—New York Herald. Wilkinson, Colonel Hamtramck, Major Mrs. Fiske in lier revivals of tin' Butler, Captain Green and other offi Overcrowded London. French comedy.—New York Times. cer* were merry over their punch one The last census of Loudou showed night, and the general, by some acci one-third of Its huge population living Where the Road Bevan. dent, got his cue burned off. Angry General Chambers McKibben was In overcrowded conditions. It stated at the laugh which followed bls mis one® sent out to examine aud report that “of the 4.500.000 Londoners 2.000.- hap. he next day Issued an order for upon a road in tbe far west. He was 000 have no more than 400 cubic feet bidding any officer to appear with a ordered to ascertain its condition and of space per person to live in. 900,000 cue. Obedient to orders, all the offl- where it led to. He followed Instruc are living in space less than la re ter* but Major Butler cut off their tions carefully and In bis report de quired by law. 200,000 are packed In cues. tailed how it followed certain brooks horrible block dwellings, 000,01*0 live “The vain old prig?’ said the major. and streams, went over rolling prairies, three persons to one room, 26.000 live “1’11 see him hanged before I cut off passed different groves and finally up six to a room, 9,000 live seven In a my cue to gratify bim!” And he boldly a hill and climbed a tree. room, and 3.000 live eight and upward appeared without changing the style of “I think you had better leave that to as many as seventeen in one room-” his hairdressing. out,” said his commanding officer. The major was put under arrest, but “This report is to go through the usual Hl» Talent For Talk. he declared obstinately that he would military channels and will be filed. A Tlie Duke of Argyll tells tills story spend the rest of his life in prison be road would not go up a tree.” of Winston Churchill, which shows fore he would comply with such a silly “That is where this road went." in that the talent for talk developed command. Soon afterward he was tak sisted McKibben. "It kept getting young in the author and member of en very ill, and, realizing that he was fainter and fainter, but it led up the parliament. at the point of death, he gave Instruc hill and right up to that tree, There Some years ago he visited Harrow tions for bls burial, which he knew was no evidence of even a trail lieyond and. noticing a l>oy running around the would be witnessed by the whole com the tree, but it was blazed far up to cricket field all by himself, asked wliat mand. ward the top. and thnt was the end of he was doing It for. “Bore a hole,” said he, “through the tbe trail. No, sir; this report stands. “That’s Lord Randolph Churchill's bottom of my coffin, right under my I am p.Tpared to substantiate every son. and whenever lie talks too much head, and let my cue come through It, part of It.” we make III in run throe times around that tlie old general may see that even And It is so recorded in the archives the cricket field.” when dead I refuse to obey hl* or of the war department.—Washington Very Pleunant ElrrtlonecrlnK. der.” Post. Tn Ron'.!« Australia female suffrage And those direction were literally The Seas* of Loo. has been in operation for some time. A carried out. The late R. H. Stoddard was fond of member of the commonwealth parlia contrasting the English and the French ment, anxious to ■■certain the l«est A 4a*«r Pollen Fore*. Tue policemen in Haiti are paid by WOiklagtu&u Cu the great advantage of mote of approaching the woman voters results. They get capitation fee* for tbe latter. One of bis conmiirisoiiH tn hl* constituency, sought the advice of an experienced Routh Australian all tbe arrests they make. As they dealt with the death of Dickens. "A short time after Dicken* died.” hr legislator. “How do you please them? come from the worst class of the popu lation and are under no discipline, it would say. "a friend of mine visited Do vo” kl«« tbe beb^.?”. “No, *'••’’-v':-.£- follow* that a inan Is very liable to be the scene of his laat' bourM and. In the candid reply; "we kiss the elector.” arrested In Haiti unless be is willing search of Dickenslana. stopped in a —London Chronicle. to pay the policeman more than the neighboring Inn. He spoke of the nov S*rr>*g*rl*B HI» Frrednm. capitation fee. As this fee Is only 15 elist’s demise to the waiter. ‘A great Here is a Booker T. Washington di cents, the price of freedom Is not pro loss,’ he said. “‘A great loss Indeed to ua sir.' tlie vorce story: hibitive. “Brother Turner’« Just been dlvorrwt If a man objects to paying the fee waiter agreed. ‘He had all bl* ale sent from his wife,” said Brother Smith. and says he would rather go before the In from this bouse.' “Contrast with that,” Mr. Stodilard “I* dat soT’ Judge the policeman soon convince* “Yaah. Tbe Jedge done gone and him of the unpleasantness of arrest would exclaim, “tbe nnswer of a wait er to whom on tbe afternoon of Mira give him his freedom this morning.” with a thick club. beau’s death a guest said. ‘A fine day.’ “Whar’s be now?” Cet Oet th* ■**■«!. "‘Ye*.’ the waiter answered: 'it Is » “Giving hfs freedom to Martha John “Idleneae 1* a sin. The good book Ine day, but—Mirabeau is dead ’ ” son. Rhe's Sister Turner by tbts time. ■ay* that man shall eat bread in tbs A Tea* Caavaabaelt. sweat of hl* face.” A good story Is told of John Astley, a Qalt* D*llb*r*t*. “I ain't pertlckler about bread, mum. ”1 am glad to say.” remark'd Mr fellow atudent with Sir Joshua Reyn Jis’ gimme some meat and a little pie and cake If der's any handy, and I'll Seekton. “that I never spoke * hns'y olds In London and in Rome. word to you.” While walking In tbe Campagna git along. I ain't no great bread eater ”No. Leonidas." answered hi» wife Reynolda and some other students took meaelf. mum.” rather gently: "I’ra willing fit give .voi- off their costs, but for a long time credit Nir not knrrylng alwnit anv nothing would persuade young Astley A Blesslau In Dt»*ulM. to take his off. At last he was pre Scrogga— Henpeck told me that be re thin«.” vailed on to do so. and tbe cause of garded the toothache as one of tbe The aborigine* of Peru can. In the bis unwillingness to comply with the greatest of temporal blessings. Baggs — Wbat an Incomprehensible darkest nlg't and In the thickest woods, wishes of his friends was then reveal distinguish reflectively a white man. t ed by an oil sketch of a waterfall ideal Scrogga—Yea; be said It made him negro and one of their own race by ttw painted on the back of the art!*’’* smell waistcoat forget his other troubles! ■■■■■MW .....
